There are a number of websites in full academic regalia that are about the cognitive neuroscience of art, this ain't one of them. The science part included here is intended for the artist, musician, dancer, etc. The art part will include whatever visual art I find that I can't resist sharing as well as my all too novice-level paintings.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Jonah Lehrer, science writerand Editor-at-large for Seed Magazine writes about the research on brain activity and creativity. Specifically, it is the creativity of the improvising musicians, inhibiting their own inhibition, singing new melodies in the making to themselves....

About Me

Grew up mostly in a small town in Northern California, moved south when I graduated from HS. I was originally an art major and have worked in the jewelry industry and aerospace to get a regular income (hahaha!). In my mid thirties I went back to school and got a bunch of letters after my name, and have been in the academic world for the last 15 years. My area of interest is Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. I have recently started trying to learn to paint in oils after not having painted in any medium for many, many years. Although I am now "a G** D***** egghead," as my father used to say, I still have many blue-collar sensibilities. That is, I take after my labor Democrat father rather than my Republican mother.